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Free resources to support you in God’s global mission

Free Courses

Broadcast

This course outlines ‘Cross-Centred Leadership’, drawing from 1 & 2 Corinthians he presents a challenge for leadership today. He cover topics such as ‘Confronting Culture’, ‘The Basis for Spiritual Authority’ and true ‘Servant Based Leadership.’

Field Partner

A missionary leader looks at using the model of Jesus for developing leaders in a cross-cultural setting.

One Another

Organizations want to create policies and model behavior that will encourage long-term, joyful, effective service. These discussion guides can help leaders move toward this goal.

(Centre for Mission Mobilization – VIA)

The Go Mobilize study is a powerful tool to begin multiplying your heart for the unreached in others. The accompanying Coaching Conversations help you lead beginning mobilizers in living out mobilization as a lifestyle. The one-page outlines serve as a guide for you to have one-on-one conversations that equip others to mobilize in their spheres of influence. These conversations are designed to be simple, yet powerful tools that can be used by anyone.

Centre for Mission Mobilization – VIA

Go Mobilize is a small group study designed to help World Christians grow into mobilizers and learn what it takes to start a mission movement among their friends, churches, and families.

Broadcast

This course is designed for anybody interested in preaching. For new preachers it lays a foundation of this vital ministry and for experienced preachers there should still be something to learn.

DCI

This module covers lessons on discipleship, God’s call, choosing individuals for His work, impartation of power, perseverance, preparation, faithfulness, handling trials and temptations, overcoming discouragement and loneliness in leadership, time management, embracing destiny, understanding the Kingdom of God, its glory, coming, blessings, mission, unity, and importance in making the right choices.

Didasko Academy in Collaboration with World Outreach

The Leadership 101 course covers the basic areas of a leader’s formation and development, and will inspire you how to train other leaders and build them into effective leadership teams. After laying the biblical foundations of Christian leadership, the course covers the basic practices, character qualities and personal management skills necessary in the formation and development of Christian leaders. Upon these building blocks, the course then covers the critical area of how to disciple and develop leaders, then build them into effective leadership teams. Aside from being grounded in Scripture, the course is highly practical and full of helpful guidelines, ideas and principles.

Elim

Lessons in Leadership focuses on biblical examples; this module looks specifically at teamwork, Jesus’ model of leadership and developing leadership within the local church.

Paul-Timothy

A workshop manual for those who train trainers of apprentice shepherds of new congregations for continual reproduction

Mentor and Multiply

Interactive training to launch gatherings that multiply.

Paul-Timothy

This is a ‘model’ training workshop to prepare trainers who will introduce the Train & Multiply® program. Participants will be expected to present the same workshop to others, in turn, making necessary cultural and content adjustments. T&M enables users to mentor others for reproductive disciple-making by applying Jesus’ Supreme Order to local gatherings, their shepherds and their members.

Paul-Timothy Trainers

This training prioritizes interactivity, with trainees engaging in dynamic groups, aligning with both house churches and larger church cell groups. Rooted in over 60 New Testament references to reciprocal service, its objectives include equipping trainees for church or cell planting, leadership development, and fostering a culture of ministry multiplication within mother churches or cells.

Train and Multiply

A training manual for those who introduce T&M® into pastoral mentorship chains for continual multiplication

Train and Multiply

Train and Multiply Church Multiplication Cycle Workbook and training guide

Train and Multiply

A 12-module, introductory workshop on biblical coaching for Church Planting Movements.

Free E-Books

Claybury International

The 180 pages of this second edition provide a servant leader’s insight into the true nature of projects, keeping strategies and plans in line with God’s purpose while leading the project team members to achieve their full potential. It sets out simple but comprehensive approaches for project planning, execution and it offers practical guidance for dealing with common issues, while keeping in mind the needs of both church and organisational project managers.

Missionary Training

How to form and lead a missionary team. This study helps a team develop a memorandum of understanding and an action plan. It outlines the responsibilities of team members and the team leader.

T4TOnline

T4T refers to “Training for Trainers”. It is designed to teach you how to initiate an effective evangelism and discipleship training process in your community that will result in hundreds or even thousands of new believers being discipled in new faith communities.

T4TOnline

The critical elements for a CPM ministry plan, and how T4T helps accomplish them
Training for Trainers is not the same as a Church Planting Movement. T4T is a ministry process to help you position yourself to see the Spirit of God ignite a CPM. T4T is a process; CPM is a result. However, the T4T process contains all the elements to help you see a balanced and sustained movement emerge from the Spirit’s empowerment.

Free Articles

Leading with a Developmental Bias: Capturing a Biblical Perspective on People Development (Common Ground Journal):
Written from a lifelong cross-cultural mission background, the author offers insights based on their firsthand experience and observations over four decades of work in more than 40 countries and with over 100 mission organizations. This article aims to explore the practical knowledge gained from these experiences and address the challenges faced by missionaries, without personal bias or grievances.

Developing Christ-Centred Organisation Leadership Whitepaper 
(Claybury International):
God’s call to Christians in Romans 12, to no longer be conformed to the world but to be transformed, applies to all areas of life and Christian endeavour. By the renewing of our minds Christians are to live a Christ-centred, Spirit-led, Christ-like life. This applies as much to leadership as it does to any other area of life and service. 

Continuing Mission Leader Development
(The International Missionary Training Network)
This article stresses the importance of intentionally developing leaders for sustainable missionary work, emphasizing non-formal and informal learning approaches. It discusses key concepts like servant leadership, steward-leadership, and high-performance leadership practices. Various essential topics for personal development as leaders are outlined, along with selected resources for further exploration.

Collection of Articles

Free Videos

Church Planting Webinars
(Broadcast)
This collection of broadcasts features discussions with experienced church planters on topics such as healthy church planting, reaching unreached communities, faith for growth, having a clear vision, lessons learned, rooting church planting in God’s mission, starting a movement with limited resources, fighting for early converts, conducting Sunday meetings in a church plant, and maintaining a church planter’s prayer life.
Training Timothys
(Movements)
The “Training Timothys” program offers a comprehensive weekly training format that includes sessions on 4Fields Discovery in the Gospels and Acts, Iron on Iron, Church Circles Discovery in the Epistles, Generational Mapping, and Local Church Residency.
Training for Trainers Resources
(T4T Online)
A Discipleship Re-Revolution Supplementary Resources

Free Resources

Sustaining for Life-long Leadership: Leadership Endurance Inventory
(Sent Well):
An exercise created to help you “take inventory” of the health and balance of necessary networks that support a sustainable and life-giving infrastructure in the life of a leader. The exercise is effective as a single-use tool, but its effectiveness significantly increases when used multiple times in comparison over time (i.e. on an annual review basis) to help a leader truly establish key personalized, sustainable, and life-giving ministry structures around him or her for lifelong leadership.

Church Planting Resources
(Multipliers)
Resources are listed in the Six Apostolic Activities pattern modeled by Jesus and the Apostles.

Training for Trainers Resources
(T4T Online)
A Discipleship Re-Revolution Supplementary Resources

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We have free resources to support you in so many aspects of missions.